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A historical exploration of the Irish image in popular culture
It only took a century or so to segue from phrases like No Irish Need Apply to Kiss Me, I'm Irish in American popular culture. Indeed, the transformation of the Irish image is a fascinating blend of political, cultural, racial, commercial, and social influences.
The Green Space examines the variety of factors that contributed to remaking the Irish image from downtrodden and despised to universally acclaimed. To understand the forces that molded how people understand Irish is to see the matrixthe green spacethat facilitated their interaction between the 1890s and 1960s. Marion R. Casey argues that, as Irish evolved between the mid-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, a visual and rhetorical expanse for representing ethnicity was opened up in the process. The evolution was also transnational; both Ireland and the United States were inextricably linked to how various iterations of Irish were deplo

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    Publisher: New York University Press
    Publication Date: 4/23/2024
    ISBN13: 9781479817450, 978-1479817450
    ISBN10: 1479817457

    Non Fiction , History , Non Fiction

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    A historical exploration of the Irish image in popular culture
    It only took a century or so to segue from phrases like No Irish Need Apply to Kiss Me, I'm Irish in American popular culture. Indeed, the transformation of the Irish image is a fascinating blend of political, cultural, racial, commercial, and social influences.
    The Green Space examines the variety of factors that contributed to remaking the Irish image from downtrodden and despised to universally acclaimed. To understand the forces that molded how people understand Irish is to see the matrixthe green spacethat facilitated their interaction between the 1890s and 1960s. Marion R. Casey argues that, as Irish evolved between the mid-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, a visual and rhetorical expanse for representing ethnicity was opened up in the process. The evolution was also transnational; both Ireland and the United States were inextricably linked to how various iterations of Irish were deplo

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